Validation of the recording of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in routinely collected electronic healthcare records in England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Routinely-collected healthcare data provide a valuable resource for epidemiological research. Validation studies have shown that for most conditions, simple lists of clinical codes can reliably be used for case finding in primary care, however, studies exploring the robustness of this approach are lacking for diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) which are largely managed in secondary care.

Method

Using the UK's Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Aurum dataset, which comprises patient-level primary care records linked to national hospital admissions and cause-of-death data, we compared the positive predictive value (PPV) of eight diagnostic algorithms. Algorithms were developed based on the literature and IPF diagnostic guidelines using comb

SUBMITTER: Morgan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10337174 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature